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14
Dec

Random Twilight Teez Musical Guest

categories Not Twilight Related, Random    

I just wanted to take a moment and give a shout-out to one of my new favorite bands; Naturally 7.  These guys are AWESOME!  I am using the word "awesome" in the sense of "these guys literally ARE their own instruments"!  Seriously, they don’t know how to PLAY the instruments, so they simulate them with their own voices.  They are an a’capele group, but you wouldn’t guess that just by listening to them.  You "hear" a bass, drums, guitars and even keyboards.  But you would never see those during a concert.  That’s because they don’t play them, they sing them.  And they sound exactly like the instruments they simulate!

These guys are amazingly talented, and I highly recommend giving them a listen.  You can learn more about them on their web site.

I’m listening to their Christmas album now, which is available on iTunes (among other places).

-Brian

10
Dec

Twilight Teez In The News

categories Dave Barry, News, Stephenie Meyer, The Store, Twilight Books, Twilight Movie    

Twilight Teez has been getting a little bit of press, lately.  This is always a good thing for a business, even if it’s bad press.  Fortunately for us, it’s been very very good.

First, we’ve been featured on our local newspaper, The Sierra Vista Herald, for a second time.  The article can be found here:

Couple’s business boosted by success of ‘Twilight’

And today, we were interviewed by KOLD 13 News on our local CBS affiliate, which technically isn’t local to Sierra Vista but it’s local enough for us.  KOLD is located in Tucson, AZ, which is about 75 miles northwest and about 21.25 times the size of our little berg.  The video can be found on their web site, linked below.  Sorry, but you’ll have to wait through about a 30-second ad for something.

Twilight Craze Hits Southern Arizona

Finally, we would like to let y’all know that we will be featured on The Today show here in the coming days (or weeks).  We’ll let you know when as soon as we do.  While we’re not going to be ON the show, one of our products will be.  We can’t say which product, just now.  Keep your eyes open.

-Brian

9
Dec

New Character Slogan Shirts Released To Manufacturing

categories The Store, Twilight Books, Twilight Merchandise    

The three new character slogan shirts – Renesmee, Rosalie, and the Edward alternate – have been released to our manufacturing partners.  This means that the graphics have been sent to our screen printers for production on shirts and other apparel.  We hope to have them up on the web site very soon.

WE CANNOT MAKE ANY PROMISES THAT THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

As much as I would like to say that the new shirts will be available in time for a Christmas delivery, because of the volume of orders we are currently receiving, we cannot make any guarantees that the new shirts will be ready by then.  Our shipping volume has exceeded 200 orders per day at this point, and order fulfillment must be our top priority.  We will have a big banner announcement when the new shirts are ready, as we have been very anxious to get these out to you.

Update: I have been authorized to publish the new designs right here on this very blog.  These are the final versions of these designs which have been personally approved by Stephenie Meyer.  So without further adu adew adiew delay, here they are.

First up we have Rosalie Cullen (and yes, it will be Cullen on the shirt, as that is how Stephenie wants it).

Rosalie’s design wasn’t all that much of a problem.  The first iteration had a hand-mirror that was far more ornate and intricate.  Stephenie, however, felt that this didn’t match well with the other designs, which are simplistic in nature.  She wanted to match the style of the designs to what we have already established.  So Roslie’s mirror was stripped of its ornateness,  We ended up with this simple hand mirror that we all felt was a much better match for the character and the precedent that we had already set.

Next, we have Renesmee Cullen.

Renesmee Cullen

Renesmee’s design was a little harder to produce.  The design called for a DNA strand, which was a lot harder to draw on the computer than you might expect.  This design went through a total of three iterations before we finally ended up with what you see here.  I’m particularly proud of this graphic.

And last, but certainly not least, we have Edward’s alternate to our famous Bite Me design.

Edward’s new graphic put up a bit of a fuss for us as well, until we settled on this final design.  The initial concept called for a smiley face, but no matter how we drew it up, the smiley face concept just wasn’t working for us.  So we decided to make a slight alteration to the apple graphic and viola!   The design was complete.

So there you go.  We hope you like them.  We feel that they are a very good representation of these charcters, and we are very excited to offer them up to you.  These images are copyrighted works and we ask that you not use these images without getting our consent first.  Like I said before, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THESE DESIGNS BEFORE CHRISTMAS.  But we are working diligently to get them as soon as possible.  As SOON as we have these shirts in stock, we will place them on the web site.

We look forward to your reading your comments.

-Brian

5
Dec

Twilight Teez Web Site and MSN or AOL Browsers

categories The Store    

Folks,

It has come to our attention that some of you are experiencing some problems using our checkout page, in that the shipping optinos aren’t always displayed.  Our web site employs the use of javascript code on some screens, including the checkout page.  We have learned that our site does not work 100% properly under the MSN and AOL web browsers.  These are browsers that are incorporated in the MSN and AOL interfaces, but they are based on Internet technologies that are many years old.  The MSN browser appears to be based on Internet Explorer version 5.0, which does not support the latest versions of Java.

If you are experiencing problems with our web site and you are using either the MSN or AOL web browsers, we would ask that you switch to the latest version of either Internet Explorer (currently on version 7) or Firefox (currently on version 3.0).  If you are using either of these browsers, and are still having trouble with the shipping options not being displayed, we really need to hear from you.

Our site works best under Internet Explorer 7.0.

-Brian

5
Dec

Beware Of Fraudulent eBay Auctions For Bella’s Engagement Ring

categories Bella's Bracelet, Bella's Engagement Ring    

I find it absolutely necessary to bring to light something that has recently come to our attention regarding eBay auctions for Bella’s Engagement Ring.  We expected that folks would want to sell their Bella’s Engagement Rings on eBay, and that’s just fine and fair with us.  However, we feel a certain obligation to our customers to make you aware that there are listings which are trying to take advantage of fans of the Twilight series by including erroneous information and pushing their selling prices to outlandish and unfair levels.  These listings are going so far as to state that even our Fashion Edition rings are no longer available for sale from us, and list prices three to five times higher than you can buy from us directly.

These listings are NOT for Signature Edition rings, which are in fact no longer available.  These listings are for the standard edition rings which are available from our web site for $59.00.  Auctions such as this one are offering these rings at unfair and unprecedented prices.

We would also like to remind you that any ring purchased from eBay or any other third party, and not directly through Twilight Teez will not have the warranty for the item honored.  Warranties on our rings (and bracelets) are extended ONLY to the original buyer of the ring from our store.

I should point out that Signature Edition rings ARE available on eBay, and because they are no longer available, it is completely reasonable to expect they will be going for higher prices.  Our Signature Edition rings came with a card which let you register the ring with Infinite Jewelry Co..  Warranties for SE rings will be honored for the person who REGISTERS that ring.

You may have questions if a certain ring available on eBay is authentic.  While we will not be able to verify the seller for you, and we cannot make any other guarantees about rings that are outside of our store, we can verify if the ring was purchased originally through us and if the ring is authentic as described in the auction.  However, ultimately we are not responsible for eBay auctions and it is up to you, should you decide to buy a ring from an eBay auction, to work out any issues you may have with the seller.

-Brian